Primer día: Domingo

So I woke up to the noises of this wonderful city this morning. I just keep thinking, how is this real? I can't believe I'm just here, in Argentina, going about my life. I haven't seen Miriam since she left me at the ISA office yesterday. Which feels kind of weird. I couldn't figure out if she was in the apartment or not this morning. Her cell was there, and there was a key in her door, and a cup of tea for me on the table, but I heard no noises or anything from the time I woke up at 9 to the time I left at 12. It was strange. It started storming, which I enjoyed, but kind of made it difficult to go exploring. I really want to visit this park near my apartment but it's probably all wet right now. When it stopped raining I grabbed my computer and headed out to find an internet cafe. I knew there was a starbucks near my house but it's going to take a while for me to get a grasp on where things are here. I started walking a bit and found a café called Pertutti. It seemed pretty ritzy though and I felt very much like an American sitting there with my computer and just a cup of tea. After a while though the Internet stopped working so I left. I finally found the ABASTO shopping center with the starbucks I was looking for. It's this fantastic mall. With all the tea I'd already had, I didn't really need the caffeine but I wanted the Internet. So there you go, my first white mocha frappuccino in Argentina. Delicious, as always. And I found a table with an outlet so I can charge my computer! Perfect! My goal was to sit here and talk to my parents on skype, but I don't have my cell phone with me. Dang. Just this Argentine version of a go phone. I bought a card with minutes for it yesterday but try as I might, I can't figure out how to load them. But I guess it's just as well, even if I could load them I don't know that I could figure out how to text the U.S. So here I am writing a blog :) It's kind of weird just hanging out in this city, but not knowing anyone. I didn't have any meetings today so I'm just on my own. And I'm comfortable wandering around and stuff during the day, but I'm not sure what I'll do tonight. I don't really want to be lame and go to bed at 11 again tonight, but we'll see. Later this week I meet the other USAL students doing the intensive month as well as the other ISA students, so hopefully I'll make some friends then. But until Wednesday it's just me. Tomorrow I have to figure out how to get back to the ISA office for a meeting about academic things. Maybe I'll ask Miriam which colectivos to take... if I ever see her again that is.